Right now in America, people who are actually medical doctors are
some of the best and brightest that America has ever produced. But as
an old history major and someone who continues to read and learn from
history every week, it is worth noting that there have been strides
made in health care and in medicine in the last 100 years that are
unparalleled in the entire history of mankind. There was a book called ``The Five Thousand Year Leap.'' I don't want
to do it an injustice, but basically it points out that when settlers
came to North America, not the immigrants that came perhaps from Russia
who then later were referred to as Native Americans, but immigrants
coming from Europe, the English, and even from Norway, during those
years, they came in boats that were not powered other than by sail or
by arm strength. Mankind had not made a lot of progress over 5,000
recorded years of history. If you looked at the implements that were
used in farming when settlers in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries
came to North America, there really had not been any great developments
in production of food and in farming tools over the thousands of years
that mankind had existed.
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